Here we will post news focusing on the global delivery giant UPS and the work that the ITF and its affiliates are carrying out through the global delivery network. This includes everything from international solidarity with global delivery workers and their unions on the frontline, organising campaigns, issues concerning casualisation of the workforce to union [...]
Asserting union strength at global delivery companies worldwide was among the key topics discussed by activists attending a meeting in the UK this week. More than 100 unionists from around the globe attended the ITF/UNI global delivery meeting in London from 15-16 May, where they homed in on ways of bolstering union activities. ITF general [...]
UNI Global Union and the ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) are inviting UPS to join them for talks, following the company’s announcement that it is to buy its global rival, TNT Express The two global unions will call on UPS (United Parcels Service) to extend its culture of cooperation with workers to its growing worldwide [...]
Dutch and Belgian Unions have written to TNT Express to demand that workers are put first in the merger of TNT Express and UPS. Please see below for the text of the letter. Letter to TNT board managers VTAY
Unions across the globe are determined to have a say in the imminent sale of TNT to UPS in an effort to stave off the worldwide risk to jobs and incomes as a result. The news that TNT and UPS are in takeover negotiations has prompted labour organisations to ask crucial questions of the company. [...]
Union activists from the big four global delivery firms based in South Africa put their heads together recently to talk about ways of improving workers’ rights. The unionists from across South Africa met in Pretoria from 9 – 11 November. The event was split into two sessions, with DHL unionists meeting on 9 November and [...]
The ITF-affiliated Teamster union has brokered an agreement with UPS in Kentucky, US, which will see a number of dismissed workers return to work. Members of the Teamsters Local Union 2727, which represents more than 1,200 aircraft maintenance technician and related employees at UPS, ratified the agreement in April. However, negotiations continued over outstanding disputes [...]
Expansion Will Accommodate Growth, Ensure Continued Reliability and Capacity. On the day that marks 25 years since UPS (NYSE: UPS) started its operations at Cologne/Bonn Airport in Germany, the company announced plans to significantly expand its European air hub facilities there.
Workers for UPS’ Turkish subsidiary have won the right to be represented collectively by the TÜMTIS trade union, fifteen months after the dismissals of 163 workers – all of whom had registered to join the union or were members of it. Non-stop picket lines, backed by an international campaign, won the right to return and [...]
Here we will post news focusing on the global delivery giant UPS and the work that the ITF and its affiliates are carrying out through the global delivery network. This includes everything from international solidarity with global delivery workers and their unions on the frontline, organising campaigns, issues concerning casualisation of the workforce to union [...]
UPS aircraft mechanics in the US are set to benefit from a pay rise after they ratified a new agreement. UPS workers in Louisville, Kentucky, represented by Local 2727 of the ITF-affiliated Teamsters union, endorsed the agreement earlier this week. The contract, which covers nearly 1,300 aircraft mechanics and runs till 1 November 2013, maintains [...]